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Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) is known for the non-violent means of revolution by which India was able to gain its independence.
His emphasis on truth and the purity of means was from a deep sense of humanity: the respect for life should not be violated in the fight for their rights and privileges.
Great as he was as a leader, he was far greater as one who put no limit to humanity. For him life was an indivisible whole and to know is to act.
His entire life was devoted to the translating of his thought into “experiments with truth.”
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Mahatma Gandhi Links for Learning
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Gandhi composed a list of Seven Blunders of the World shortly before his assassination. His grandson Arun added an eighth - Rights without responsibility.
- Wealth without work
- Pleasure without conscience
- Knowledge without character
- Commerce without morality
- Science without humanity
- Worship without sacrifice
- Politics without principle
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“An eye for an eye
will make the whole
world blind.” |
“Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” |
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will.”
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Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Nationalist and Spiritual Leader, Sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone
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Mahatma Gandhi
Charkha, the Hindu word of wheel (from the Persian), is the mechanism used in India for spinning cotton fiber into yarn.
Gandhi used the charkha as a means of promoting village and gaining independence life during the non-cooperation movement.
• “In my dream, in my sleep, while eating, I think of spinning wheel. The spinning wheel is my sword. To me it is the symbol of India's liberty.”
• “I would make the wheel the centre round which all other activities will revolve.”
• “The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.”
• “...The spinning-wheel enables us to identify ourselves with cores. The millionaires imagine that money can bring them anything in the world. But it is not so. At any moment death might come and snuff them out…. Losing one's life…is not the same thing as shedding 'self'. One has to learn to efface self or the ego voluntarily and as a sacrifice in order to find God. The spinning-wheel rules out exclusiveness. It stands for all inclusiveness. It stands for all including the poorest. It, therefore, requires us to be humble and to cast away pride completely.”
NEWS - ... an e-charkha, a hand-operated spinning wheel that produces yarn and generating enough electricity to store and to power up the specially-designed LED light source. [the kid powered pump]
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Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988), lifelong pacifist, devout Muslim and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was a political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India.
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In the spring of 1930 Gandhi led a non-violent protest against the salt monopoly imposed by the British Colonial laws. The salt laws forbid the “manufacture of salt, the possession and trading of smuggled salt or to collect salt from the natural deposits at the coast”.
The British had planned to control India by forcing the Indians to come to them for salt, an essential component of the human diet that regulating the exchange of water between cells and is a preservative where refrigeration is not available. This tactic did not work with tea either.
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